Kyriakos Mitsotakis: “We cannot tolerate an environment in which a student, a professor, may feel hostage to trampoukism”

With a categorical statement, the prime minister, Kyriakos MitsotakisWell, he set the framework for the next day at the Greek Universities, stressing how “We cannot tolerate an environment in which anyone, a student, a professor, may feel hostage to tramping and violence.”.

This placement marks the beginning of a series of new, bold legislative interventions aimed at the definitive elimination of lawlessness and violence from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

The three axes of new interventions

At a meeting with the Rectors, the prime minister presented the key axes of the new framework, which provides for specific and strict sanctions:

1. Responsibilities and penalties for rectors: Clear sanctions are established for rectors who do not meet their obligations to comply with order.¹ As the prime minister said, these sanctions “may be able to reach and up to discount from their role».
2. High Public Prosecutor’s Office: One is defined Supreme Court’s deputy prosecutorwhich will have the nationwide supervision for the implementation of the law and to deal with offenses in universities.
3. Liability for vandalism: The damage caused to academics will no longer burden the budget of the institution, namely the Greek taxpayer. OR Restoration of damage will be heavy, at the urban level, primarily the leaders themselves.

“Minorities cannot be universities”

Kyriakos Mitsotakis was clear about the government’s determination to clash with the minorities that impose their own law. “The minorities can no longer be the universities and where there is illegality, there can be no immunity anymore“, He emphasized.

He described this effort as a “war to win”, recognizing that, although battles have been won, the road remains difficult. However, he described the conflict with these phenomena as a “one -way street” necessary for the younger generation to trust the public university again.

‘It’s a chance now definitively and irrevocably to finish with phenomena which shaken the Public University throughout the Transition, “the prime minister concluded, sending the message that this change is a demand for the whole of society.